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Norker [3669615]

"Sponsored" traders show up at the highest level no matter the price. What used to mean "you get good deal" now means "they paid me, so you gon buy from them now". Since when did Amazon and Google shady practises and scummy corporate tactics become the norm. This is just a bad thing in general, imitating the worst parts of capitalism. At this point, soon it is going to be premium+ now when everyone eventually has to get premium to compete.

 

 

 



Be pro-consumer, not pro-corpo

Chirrut_Imwe [2827523]

Did someone swipe some vowels from your keyboard?

 

Edit:  OP changed original tirade, the original was missing an astounding number of vowels.

Rhettoric [2719673]

I mean, if you cant take the .01 seconds it takes to compare prices it sounds like a personal issue to me.

Norker [3669615]

I will, most won't that's why the richest corporate scum searching methods use this tactic and that's why it's a bad thing

Weav3r [1853324] Helper

The multiple sponsored listings appearing is a bug that I'm actively working on. 

 

After I've fixed this, only the top listing will ever be sponsored and there will also be a setting for logged-in users to disable sponsored listings from appearing at all.

Rhettoric [2719673]

Sometimes I buy from more expensive bazaars if the quantity I need is there and it's still below or around market price. This is such a non-issue that if all you care about it buying the lowest price then it takes 1 singular braincell to avoid paying the higher price 

Norker [3669615]

Literal classified anti consumer tactics is what it's called, so I'm going to complain about it as a consumer. Hopefully that double appearance is actually a bug and the sponsored bazaars disabling feature gets added, but that's a future fix. 

 

If it was implemented like an ad, for example, to the sides or just like a separate field itself, sure that would be good, like the newspaper example, but it's not right now.

Deadringers [2560768]

Weaver’s site has provided people with a good option to find cheaper stuff to buy, but also the best prices to sell at. 

He’s introducing some premium features as he should make some cash off this considering the number of users it has daily.

 

People can still use it just fine.

pdk [3626257]

I dont like this. Sponsorship isnt going to get the traders extra trades fairly, its gonna trick people into thinking they are selling or buying at the best price (because no, we dont check, because we assume that a list sorted by price is going to be sorted by price, not by how much they paid weav3r). So essentially you have traders paying you to scam people. Way to go weav3r. Good job

Norker [3669615]

Yeah, but I can complain about anti consumer tactics being used. There are better ways to gain revenue and show sponsored content than copying Amazon bar for bar

pdk [3626257]

weav3r has the API key of most players in torn. Data that wuold take years to gather can be gathered (and is gathered) from those keys in a few seconds. Ive seen multiple posts and tools made by weav3r that use this information and have gotten him karma and money. Hes being greedy

Shooby [2510470]

You do the same shit all day everyday. Just about any time I look in trade chat, you're in there advertising best prices with prices all above MV, let alone bazaar value lol.

 

Difference is you're not getting the free publicity so you have to sit there spamming all day.

pdk [3626257]

It is exactly as fair as the vicoxan or mistletoe tricks in bazaar, or adding items underpriced then changing price for buyers to overpay. And last i heard, those were called scamming.

Norker [3669615]

I sell RW related items. I don't do bazaar trades. I mostly sell to traders anything that would be the usual "bazaar sell" items. The reason they are overpriced is because I haven't touched it in so long

__woodenickle__ [2263400]

seen you had some karma, thought I'd fix that a little.

 

 

as to weavers site, hers a fix, don't fucking use it asshole!

 

do your own diligence and hunt for the deals yourself.

 

what a McDouchebag!